Skype call between MiE Expert15 Linda Foulkes and dedicated teachers from Abuja, Nigeria
This is a guest post from Linda Foulkes one of South Africa’s 2015 MiE Experts. Linda shared a Skype call with Wellington Oboh, a MiE Expert from Nigeria and 62 teachers at a school in Abuja on the importance of the Microsoft Educator Network and the importance of Office Mix. Linda has this post on her own blog and I asked her if I could use it as a guest post on the SchoolNet blog. Linda’s blog can be found at: https://folklind.wordpress.com
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Submitted by Fiona Beal
Just looking through all the Google posts that were shared to my various subscriptions this week, these were the ten that caught my eye. I think these could be useful to teachers.
1. ‘How to Easily Find the Biggest Files in your Google Drive’ from Digital Inspiration http://goo.gl/b5msYB
What do you do when your Google Drive is running out of storage space? You either add more storage or the inexpensive option is that you clean up your Drive and delete the large files...
Microsoft One Drive (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-us/) is a great way to store online files and work from Microsoft products online. It comes pre-installed with Windows 8.1. You can either use OneDrive online or you can download it to your computer as well as use it online.
What is One Drive?
OneDrive is free online storage (15GB free) that comes with signing up for a Microsoft account and signing in. It’s like an extra hard drive that’s available from any of the devices ...
Symbaloo is a great way to curate information in a neat, precise ‘webmix’. This morning I made a start in collecting and storing sites where one can find useful Microsoft resources for classroom teaching. I wanted to keep them all in one place and found that storing them on a Symbaloo webmix for easy access worked really well.
Please click on the webmix picture below to be taken to the actual webmix entitled ‘Microsoft Collections’.
Microsoft Collections
If you would like to kno...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Heard of Symbaloo? Symbaloo.com is decidedly one of my favourite bookmarking sites! Let me show you an example. This is a collection of National Geographic e-book readers collected on a Symbaloo webmix for easy access.
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks
What is Symbaloo?
It is a free visual bookmarking site – a fun, simple and colourful way to organize and store all your digital resources in different categories in the cloud. It allows you to curate c...
Did you know that a disproportionate number of school administrators started out as Maths teachers, –and many are skeptical of the value of technology in the classroom? I received this collection of 63 Maths and Science apps this morning – featuring Wolfram, FluidMath, Corinth, and more! Use this as a great leave behind with your school’s Maths and Science teachers, and Administrators to help differentiate the Windows advantage in the classroom.
Featured Apps
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This message was sent out at the end of last year. It is a great summary of what Google was busy with plus it is loaded with useful links.
“The Google for Education​ Team would like to thank you for your involvement this year in the workshop and for using Google for Education Tools in your learning environment.
2014 has been a great year – We launched great tools like Google Classroom, Google Apps School Directory Sync, Android 5.0 has great APIs for Work and Education, ...
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The public vote phase of the 2014 SA Blog Awards has now started. Hundreds of South African Bloggers have entered and are displaying the vote badges on their blogs. Blog fans are encouraged to look out for the badge and support the bloggers by voting for them.
Our SchoolNet blog is entered in the BEST EDUCATION BLOG category. If you feel our blog deserves your vote please vote for us! Go to our blog, http://www.schoolnetsa.blogspot.com/, and look for the big, red voting badge on the right hand side. Pl...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
Have you ever wondered what happens at a Google Educator Group (GEG) launch? Well they are all different but I would like to take you through a very exciting launch I attended recently, namely the Cape Town West Coast GEG which was launched at Parklands College in Cape Town.
What is a GEG group?
“Google Educato...
